This book was quite gut wrenching and emotional for me so I could just imagine having to be the one with the firsthand experience and writing this! The author herself was adopted and then later on gives up her child for adoption. Not only is there the research angle to what happens through adoption psychologically but it is so raw and deep that you feel so many emotions reading this. This book brought me back t standing in the middle of the girls labeled "broken" in the group home that have families but don't feel like they belong. They became part of the system and some were put into foster care and have had a rough go at finding an adoptive family that will be able to help everyday with the trauma some of the have faced. To say in the least that this pulled at the heart strings is an understatement!! While not one person will face the exact same situation and outcome, this book really gives readers an inside look to adoption, the long term effects, so many emotional turns to how adoption is processed, and just how mankind can be. Humanity needs a wake up call, and hopefully we can start doing better than we have. Thank you for the chance to read and review this book, I found it very emotional and enjoyable and left my honest opinion on it. I was highly impressed at the writing and the outpour of vulnerability put into writing this for the world to read.